diff --git a/ParaView-v4.3.1-source.tar.gz b/ParaView-v4.3.1-source.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index c32f0f9..0000000
--- a/ParaView-v4.3.1-source.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:d534c475fc052215ecadf4ad19d9c7996c634b5d965951292b966710509a2542
-size 50842525
diff --git a/ParaView-v4.4.0-source.tar.gz b/ParaView-v4.4.0-source.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..472c731
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ParaView-v4.4.0-source.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:c2dc334a89df24ce5233b81b74740fc9f10bc181cd604109fd13f6ad2381fc73
+size 58397252
diff --git a/paraview-freetype-2.5.4.patch b/paraview-freetype-2.5.4.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a5306bb..0000000
--- a/paraview-freetype-2.5.4.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-Index: ParaView-v4.2.0-source/VTK/Rendering/FreeType/vtkFreeTypeTools.cxx
-===================================================================
---- ParaView-v4.2.0-source.orig/VTK/Rendering/FreeType/vtkFreeTypeTools.cxx
-+++ ParaView-v4.2.0-source/VTK/Rendering/FreeType/vtkFreeTypeTools.cxx
-@@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ bool vtkFreeTypeTools::CalculateBounding
-     if (bitmap)
-       {
-       metaData.ascent = std::max(bitmapGlyph->top - 1, metaData.ascent);
--      metaData.descent = std::min(-(bitmap->rows - (bitmapGlyph->top - 1)),
-+      metaData.descent = std::min(-(static_cast<int>(bitmap->rows) - (bitmapGlyph->top - 1)),
-                                   metaData.descent);
-       }
-     ++heightString;
-@@ -1950,8 +1950,8 @@ void vtkFreeTypeTools::GetLineMetrics(T
-     if (bitmap)
-       {
-       bbox[0] = std::min(bbox[0], pen[0] + bitmapGlyph->left);
--      bbox[1] = std::max(bbox[1], pen[0] + bitmapGlyph->left + bitmap->width);
--      bbox[2] = std::min(bbox[2], pen[1] + bitmapGlyph->top - 1 - bitmap->rows);
-+      bbox[1] = std::max(bbox[1], pen[0] + bitmapGlyph->left + static_cast<int>(bitmap->width));
-+      bbox[2] = std::min(bbox[2], pen[1] + bitmapGlyph->top - 1 - static_cast<int>(bitmap->rows));
-       bbox[3] = std::max(bbox[3], pen[1] + bitmapGlyph->top - 1);
-       }
-     else
diff --git a/paraview.changes b/paraview.changes
index 8c6f5cc..d2ed4a0 100644
--- a/paraview.changes
+++ b/paraview.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Sep 14 21:44:39 UTC 2015 - badshah400@gmail.com
+
+- Update to version 4.4.0:
+  + List of changes at
+    http://www.paraview.org/Bug/changelog_page.php?version_id=114.
+- Drop paraview-freetype-2.5.4.patch: incorporated upstream.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Feb 14 06:32:22 UTC 2015 - foss@grueninger.de
 
diff --git a/paraview.spec b/paraview.spec
index 1d64e4a..bc9e66d 100644
--- a/paraview.spec
+++ b/paraview.spec
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
 #
 
 
-%define major_ver 4.3
+%define major_ver 4.4
 Name:           paraview
-Version:        4.3.1
+Version:        4.4.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Data analysis and visualization application
 License:        BSD-3-Clause
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ Patch0:         paraview-default-qtstyle.patch
 Patch1:         paraview-desktop-entry-fix.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM paraview-fix-file-contains-date-time.patch badshah400@gmail.com -- Remove reference to __DATE__ and __TIME__ from source
 Patch2:         paraview-fix-file-contains-date-time.patch
-# PATCH-FIx-UPSTREAM paraview-freetype-2.5.4.patch dimstar@opensuse.org -- Fix build with FreeType 2.5.4+
-Patch3:         paraview-freetype-2.5.4.patch
 BuildRequires:  Mesa-devel
 BuildRequires:  boost-devel
 BuildRequires:  cmake >= 2.8.8
@@ -116,7 +114,6 @@ This package provides the SciberQuestToolKit plugin for paraview.
 %patch0 -p1
 %patch1 -p1
 %patch2 -p1
-%patch3 -p1
 
 %build
 # Prepare for gcc 4.9.0: work around gcc 4.9.0 regression
@@ -183,6 +180,9 @@ done
 
 %py_compile %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/%{name}/site-packages/paraview/vtk/util
 
+# UNNECESSARY STATIC LIB
+rm -fr %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/libFmmMesh.a
+
 %fdupes %{buildroot}/
 
 %post